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To: Ilaine who wrote (69019)9/10/2004 6:48:40 PM
From: SBHX  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793752
 
You're right, kerning is the problem here. These are wet-ink units right? In University days, typesetters are used for final printing of doctoral thesis and not normal usage as it was very expensive each page, and real slow, even so, you have to use ltroff and type with obscure scripts (this is before Word, before TeX even) to use them.

It's hard to believe that someone will go through the trouble of writing troff scripts for memos like these.

Then in mid 80s, Apple Laserwriters showed up.

Also, it seems noone has the originals, probably photocopies, otherwise ink/toner analysis would be happening now to be conclusive.



To: Ilaine who wrote (69019)9/10/2004 6:59:58 PM
From: John Carragher  Respond to of 793752
 
you would think the national guard couldn't buy something like that unless on a military approved purchase list. Locally you do not have authority to buy any typewriter you want to buy. They would have to go through specs lists for type of typewriter and supplier i would expect some company may have bid for the whole state business or the whole air national guard business. this should be easy to check out in military records.


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